T Quotes
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“The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.”
“The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention.”
Source: Time and the Art of Living
“The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.”
Source: The Divine Comedy: The Unabridged Classic
“The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable . He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“The mind which is immortal makes itself
Requital for its good or evil thoughts,
Is its own origin of ill and end,
And its own place and time; its innate sense,
When stripped of this mortality, derives
No colour from the fleeting things without,
But is absorb'd in sufferance or in joy,
Born from the knowledge of its own desert.”
Source: Manfred
“The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.”
“The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.”
Source: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
“The mind will always find opportunities to auto-pilot.”
“The mind WILL be free, or it will be dead.”
“The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free”
“The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)
“The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)
“The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.”
Source: The Stone Gods
“The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the poem round and about and upside down, dancing with it a kind of bolero of two snakes twisting and coiling, until the poem has found its right and proper shape.”
“The mind you feed today becomes the life you live tomorrow.”
Source: Mind Reset – 7 Days to Rewire Your Mind and Change Your Life: A Simple Day-by-Day Guide to Build Discipline, Confidence, and Clarity
“The mind, your greatest foe or friend—
In peace, you triumph; in chaos, you fall.”
“The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.”
“The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“The mind's direction is more important than its progress.”
“The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”
Source: Les Misérables
“The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.”
“The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.”
Source: Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great
“The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.”
“The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.”
Source: Collected Early Poems: 1950-1970
“The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.”
“The mind's the standard of the man.”
“The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem’ries, Picasso your dreams.”
“The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes his prime and his life begins to lose true vigor and charm, his mind starts functioning as if it were another form of life; it imitates what life does, eventually doing what life cannot do.”
“The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.”
“The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.”
Source: You Can If You Think You Can
“The mind, if slackened even a little, will cause defeat, the same as fearing the opponent will make you unable to use full strength.”
“The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.”
“The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.”
Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies
“The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.”
Source: Remarks on the character and writings of Fenelon
“The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.”
“The mind, like any muscle, must be exercised.”
“The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.”
“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
“The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.”
Source: Anthology of Black Humor
“The mind, properly controlled, can do just about everything. You can think your way through adversity, you can think your way through problems. It is a superpowerful instrument which so few use to maximum. And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.”
Source: The Power of Positive Living
“The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.”
Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings
“The mind, the body and the world are made out of Consciousness but Consciousness is not made out of them. It is made out of itself. Therefore everything is made only out of Consciousness.”
“The mind, the Buddha, living creatures - these are not three different things.”
“The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.”